Quotes About Boredom

Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.

Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety.

Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.

Boredom is a horrible thing.

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.

I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.

I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I hate it. 'Madness' is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting, too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of depression.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

Boredom is the beginning of all destruction and everything that is negative.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.

The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor.

For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.

Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich men's crimes escape the law, protected as they are by the cowardice of governments and people, Nature, more real than society, sets her anarchic example by abandoning the wretched time servers of Capital to the shame and madness of the worst aberrations.

Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.

In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is completely death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work. So there was an inherent challenge in trying to keep it fresh, because it's something that I'm familiar with, but the real draw for me was at long last to work with Halle. She and I had come close to working on two other films together prior to this one that unfortunately had fallen apart for various reasons.

In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.

It's all there-the boredom, the devotion, the horror and even the humor in an industrial war fought on a global scale that we'll never see again. Unit histories just do not get any better.

Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.

Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, or to disease and death. They too must deal with loneliness, the deaths of loved ones and the frustrations and boredom of old age.

When we learn to TOLERATE boredom, we find out who we really are.

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

Boredom is desire seeking desire.